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Rain expected to slide down the coast Wednesday evening The Weather Authority is forecasting areas of rain that will be sliding down the coast for Wednesday evening and overnight.
FORT MYERS El Niño forms over Pacific Ocean; will affect Southwest Florida later in year According to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center, El Nino has developed across areas of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Isolated storms, breezy conditions for Friday Expect on-and-off showers and occasionally weak storms throughout the late morning until Friday evening across Southwest Florida.
WHAT IS ENSO? Have you ever heard of ENSO? El Nino – Southern Oscillation is a naturally set of re-occurring climate patterns involving changes in water temperatures across the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. This fluctuation between warmer and cooler than average water temperatures directly impacts weather across the country. Roughly every 2 – 7 years, sea […]
2nd Warmest February in Fort Myers & Looking Ahead to March If you thought February was warm across southwest Florida, well you were right! Fort Myers reported its 2nd warmest February on record, as our average temperature, a combination of the morning low & afternoon high, was 73.7°. The only February hotter was in 2018, with an average temperature of 74.9°. The image below details just […]
FORT MYERS NOAA’S winter outlook issued Thursday; La Niña expected through winter As La Niña is expected to remain for the third consecutive winter, NOAA, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has issued its 2022 winter outlook. The winter outlook was released through the CPC, or Climate Prediction Center, which is a sub-division of the National Weather Service. Typically with La Niña, this favors a warmer-than-average […]
FORT MYERS Perseid meteor shower battles a supermoon Aug. 11 PERSEID METEOR SHOWER AND A SUPERMOON Heads up, Southwest Florida… literally! One of the best astronomical events of the year takes place soon. The Perseid meteor shower will light up the sky this week, with the peak occurring from Thursday into early Friday. NASA expects the Perseids to light up the sky—on a normal year, […]
WINK NEWS CSU, NOAA lower number of expected hurricanes, still calls for active season Both NOAA, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and CSU, Colorado State University, updated their forecast on Thursday for the remainder of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. Here’s the very latest from NOAA. As you can see from their previous forecast, they have slightly decreased the seasonal outlook in total tropical storms from 14 – […]
When will the Atlantic wake up? It’s been nearly a month since the the last named storm formed in the Atlantic Basin, with Colin passing along coastal portions of the Carolinas in early July. Since then, the Atlantic has gone into a deep slumber, with strong wind shear, dry air, and Saharan Dust shutting down the basin. It has been 30 […]
WINK NEWS What is Saharan dust? Have you ever been curious as to what Saharan Dust is, sometimes referred to as Saharan Air Layer? Here are a few facts that you should know about the yearly event! THE CAUSE: As you may have guessed, Saharan Dust originates from the Saharan Desert, which is located throughout most of northern Africa. It is […]